![]() ![]() These girls come to be known as the Brodie set, whom Miss Brodie culturally develops and confides in. In time, Miss Brodie singles out six girls as special to her, and who she intends to mold into “‘the crème de la crème’”: Sandy Stranger, Rose Stanley, Mary Macgregor, Jenny Gray, Monica Douglas, and Eunice Gardiner. ![]() ![]() At the Marcia Blaine School, located in Edinburgh, Scotland, a class of ten-year-old girls begins two years of instruction with Miss Jean Brodie, a charismatic teacher at the Junior school who claims again and again to be in her “prime.” She provides her pupils with an energetic if unorthodox education in unauthorized topics as various as poetry, makeup, Italian fascism under Mussolini, and her own love life, believing that Goodness, Truth, and Beauty are of supreme value, and that the arts hold a higher place than the sciences. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Weaving deeply personal storytelling with extensive research on mnemonics, 'Songlines: The Power and Promise' offers unique insights into Indigenous traditional knowledges, how they apply today and how they could help all peoples thrive into the future. ![]() Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather than simply recorded in writing. Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. 'An act of intellectual reconciliation.' - Lynette Russell ![]() 'Let this series begin the discussion.' - Bruce Pascoe Exploring practices such as architecture and design, land management, medicine, astronomy and innovation, this six-book series brings together two very different ways of understanding the natural world: one ancient, the other modern. The First Knowledges series offers an introduction to Indigenous knowledges in vital areas and their application to the present day and the future. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hello Select your address Kindle Store Hello, sign in. ![]() As a physician, woman, and lover of great stories, I highly recommend For Their Own Good.' -R. For Their Own Good eBook : Michel, Bradette: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store. 'The brilliant presentation of a fictionalized true epoch in the history of American 'therapeutic' intervention holds our attention from first page to last. Touted as havens for patients receiving innovative treatments, the hospitals confined society's powerless, whether insane or not. Inspired by true events, For Their Own Good reveals the murky, often terrifying world of nineteenth century insane asylums. Hello Select your address Kindle Store Hello, Sign in. His compassion for the women under his care, and his shock at the perversity of their treatment propel him into actions no one could have predicted. For Their Own Good eBook : Michel, Bradette: : Kindle Store. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Nineteenth century women are committed to an insane asylum for reasons that have nothing to do with their sanity: When New York physician, Adam Fletcher takes the position of medical doctor at the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane in 1857, he quickly realizes the asylum is not a place of healing. FOR THEIR OWN GOOD is a Royal Palm Award Winner Congratulations to Bradette Michel who won a Royal Palm Literary Award for her new novel For Their Own Good. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus, we have to make sense of the world by ourselves and “travel the road by ourselves” to be able to emerge with a greater knowledge of the world around us and what our place in it is. He is appealing to our own sense of knowledge, which is possibly different from that of others. With this, he means that the Knower has to make up his own mind about what to believe and should not rely on the beliefs and thoughts of other people, because this can influence our own way of thinking. In the poem, Walt Whitman talks about how the person “shall no longer take things at second or third hand…”. With “you”, Whitman seems to be referring to the Knower, who is situated at the center of the Knowledge diagram. This poem by Walt Whitman can be related to TOK. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know… -Walt Whitman, “Song of myself” (1855) ![]() Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, Each and every moment is a new birth, a new world of Now unfolding before the awake senses of all those who are embodied in that moment. You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self… In a later poem called Unfolded Out of the Folds, Whitman imagined all of life as a series of unfoldings, just as every new life and identity is unfolded out of the folds of the woman. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, ![]() ![]() The book is structured around four family deaths, each about a decade apart, and is told in the third person using an ever-shifting perspective - pegged to different characters - to create a free-flowing big-screen narrative that wields a rather hypnotic effect. It charts their downfall over a period of some 40 years, using this as a metaphor for the decline of white colonial rule. In a nutshell, The Promise is about the Swarts, a privileged white Afrikaner family, living on a farm outside of Pretoria. ![]() I’m happy to report that it didn’t disappoint. His new novel, The Promise, is his first in seven years, so its arrival came with some expectation. I love the recurring themes in much of his work about religion, racism and community, all seen through the lens of South Africa’s complicated history and issues arising from the dismantling of apartheid. Ever since I belatedly discovered him in 2015, I’ve been steadily making my way through his back catalogue, and I am yet to meet a book by him I haven’t adored. Fiction – paperback Chatto & Windus 293 pages 2021.ĭamon Galgut is one of my favourite authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() And when rumors start swirling about Juliet’s instability, her neediness, and her threats of suicide, Rose starts to fear not only for Rob’s heart, but also for his life. This is not how the story was supposed to go. Rose is devastated over losing Rob to Juliet. ![]() Juliet, who is gorgeous, vindictive, and a little bit wild.and who has set her sights on Rob. Juliet, who used to be Rose’s best friend. Rose has been waiting for years for Rob to kiss her-and when he finally does, it’s perfect. Rosaline knows that she and Rob are destined to be together. What’s in a name, Shakespeare? I’ll tell you: everything. THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED ROSALINE-NOW A HULU MOVIEįrom the New York Times bestselling author of One Italian Summer and In Five Years comes an intensely romantic modern recounting of the greatest love story ever told-narrated by the girl Romeo was supposed to love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He appeared with Marilyn Monroe in her final film, “Something’s Got to Give” (1962), but the studio fired Monroe after three weeks, and the film was never finished. Nevertheless, Tom was nominated for a Golden Globe award in 1963. ![]() While filming the title role in ‘The Cardinal’ (1962), Tom suffered from Otto Preminger’s Teutonic directing style and became physically ill. He was part of the all-star cast in ‘The Longest Day’ (1962), a film of the World War II generation, credited with saving 20th Century Fox Studios, after the disaster of ‘Cleopatra.” He considered his best role to be in ‘In Harm’s Way’(1965), which is also regarded as one of the better films about World War II. He appeared in several horror and science fiction films: “I Married a Monster from Outer Space” (1958) and “Moon Pilot” (1962) and in westerns: ‘Three Violent People’ (1956) and ‘Winchester ’73’ (1967). Tom was cast in the title role of the Disney TV series “Texas John Slaughter” (1958) that made him something of a household name. In 1955 he moved to California to try his hand at the movies, and the next year made his film debut in “The Scarlet Hour” (1956). He made his Broadway debut in 1952 in the chorus of the musical “Wish You Were Here.” He also worked in television at the time, but as a production assistent. It was Noel Coward’s partner, Gertrude Lawrence, who encouraged Tom to try acting. ![]() ![]() ![]() Poul Anderson - Sargasso Of Lost Starships Schmitz - An Incident On Route 12įavorite Science Fiction Stories Volume 5 (read by Jim Roberts, Kevin Killavey, Mark Nelson, Emmett Casey and Cindy Hardin Killavey) Milton Lesser - Home Is Where You Left It The Gostak And The Doshesīen Bova & Myron R. 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Instead of corporal punishment, she now simply shouts at the fairies and pixies in her school. ![]() In later editions, I’ve learned, Dame Slap became Dame Snap. They are a dedication to the dreamy soul in every child, every land a world for small citizens to explore, unabashed and unchecked. The books are written with a total absence of adult cynicism, which is perhaps what makes them so timeless. I’m a big crybaby, so my eyes welled up when the children climbed to the Land of Magic Medicines to get medicine for their mother. How sweet the characters are to each other, how evident their love and selflessness, their bravery and conviction. Nostalgia hits me hard in the chest while I re-read some of my favourite lands. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cleopatra wishes him to stay and is unhappy with his disobedience. This, combined with brewing revolt back home by a young man called Pompey, forces Antony to return home. Antony receives news of his wife’s death after she tried to rebel against Octavius to assert her husband’s power. ![]() At the start of the play, Antony is neglecting his duties as a ruler by spending too much time in Egypt as a consort and lover to Queen Cleopatra. This is the regime that followed the assassination of Julius Caesar Octavius is his great-nephew. The Roman Empire is ruled by a triumvirate, a political regime led by three prominent figures: Mark Antony, Octavius Caesar, and Lepidus. The play begins by introducing the political situation in Rome. ![]() Since one of Shakespeare’s previous plays, Julius Caesar, includes some of the same characters, Antony and Cleopatra is sometimes seen as a sequel despite having a standalone story. It was inspired by the real-life relationship between Mark Antony of Rome and Cleopatra, the famed queen of Egypt. Antony and Cleopatra is a tragic play by William Shakespeare first performed around 1607. ![]() |